JoanYoung wrote:This looks like an amazing plant Irwin. We only have tall, skinny ones here?

Thanks Joan. It's one of my very favorite plants. It always brings a smile to my face.

Irwin

I love the splayed perspective of my G9 for some shots. The wide angle also allows for an extended depth of field. For additional magnification a Canon 500D diopter was used. Hope you enjoy.

Irwin

Great stack. With stacking, you do find your comfort zone. I do a lot of plant photography particularly cacti and succulents.. For stacks of at magnifications of 10:1 or less I get very good results using a bellows. Not all bellows are equal however. A bellows unit with a double set of tracks allows...

Cyclops, what types of plants do you especially like to grow.

Irwin

Cyclops wrote:Great shots Irwin,i love Euphorbia yet I have none! I think they are a fascinating genus tho. Have you been on Frank's Euphorbia site, Euphorbia.de ?

Cyclops, thanks for the kind words and link t o Frank's Euphorbia site. I hadn't been there yet but intend to to go there next.

Irwin

Thanks Cyclops. You can never have too many plant lover.

Irwin

Rik I have a workaround that will allow you to pull a saved image back into Helicon to so you can re-edit using the retouching brush. Since the response is technical in nature, a little long and tangental to the main image, I have put the information in a new post: this posting

In a prior post, Rik had commented about editing Helicon images by using the retouching function. In short, the retouching function allows you to go to a specific slice and transfer information from that slice to the composite. In this function, Helicon maintains the image registration. Rik bemoaned...

Thank you Rik. I am actually shocked at how much I like my little G9. After I fried the electronics in my 20D, (something about 110 degree greenhouses, sweathogs, and electrical circuits) I wanted something smaller than my full size box. I never thought it would expand my capability by getting into ...

Not having had a camera smaller than an SLR, I have been amazed at the capabilities of the G9. If you have ever maneuvered hands holding big slrs through a maze of cactus spines, and THEN try to bring your eyeball to the viewfinder without puncturing ears, cheeks, chests etc. Lol there were many sho...

Doug, great first head stack. The ist set of legs is either too blurry or not blurry enough given its prominence. The transitions and balences between focused and unfocused areas play out differently when focus stacking and takes a bit of getting used to. While not criticism, I have two tips that ma...

Cool bee, Doug. How warm does it have to get before the bees return to your neck of the woods for spring?

Irwin

Good shot, Doug. The oof pinkish area sets off and balances the strong yellows well. Is this beetle going after the nectar or eating the flower?

Irwin

Dave, nice shot, nice plant. I have a nudem that I will shoot today If I have a chance. Doug, I thought I would get these out yesterday, but the day got away from me. I have a ton of old slides, but much to my surprise, I had not returned to these marvelous plants since going digital. So I took and ...

Love those too.

Irwin